 March 2005
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Sara Burke, Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Telephone number: Fax number:
pwork@igc.org Peacework has been published monthly since 1972, intended to serve as a source of dependable information to those who strive for peace and justice and are committed to furthering the nonviolent social change necessary to achieve them. Rooted in Quaker values and informed by AFSC experience and initiatives, Peacework offers a forum for organizers, fostering coalition-building and teaching the methods and strategies that work in the global and local community. Peacework seeks to serve as an incubator for social transformation, introducing a younger generation to a deeper analysis of problems and issues, reminding and re-inspiring long-term activists, encouraging the generations to listen to each other, and creating space for the voices of the disenfranchised. Views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of the AFSC. |
Pieces
Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans &
the "Forgotten War" (multimedia exhibit), 1/29-3/19;
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge MA
02139; a unique exhibit exploring the legacies of the Korean War
& encouraging reflection about the devastation of war for
all Americans; Jacqueline Schwab Concert to Benefit Aid for Incarcerated Mothers, 3/26, 8 pm; First Parish of Watertown, 35 Church St, Watertown MA; $15; Jacqueline Schwab is a folk & classical improvisational pianist; proceeds benefit women incarcerated at MCI Framingham; www.jacquelineschwab.com; co-sponsored by Folk Song Society of Greater Boston, 617/623-1806
Lenten Vigils against War & Military Weapons Production, 3/12 & 19, 11:30 am-12:30 pm; Bath Iron Works, 700 Washington St, Bath ME; contact Jack Bussell, 207/772-1442 Globalization, Privatization, and Water, 3/26; Clark University, Worcester MA; $10; a one-day event to help educate & motivate statewide activists in their campaigns to stop corporations from controlling this precious resource; speakers & workshops on municipal privatization, the international Coke boycott, bottled water, trade treaties, & local control; hear from local, regional, national, & international water organizers; sponsored by Massachusetts Global Action, 33 Harrison Ave 4th floor, Boston MA 02111; 617/338-9966; www.massglobalaction.org Hope & Hard Work: Another America Is Possible; 4/8-9; New England-wide peace & justice conference (see back page for details)
Leading from Spirit, 4/1-2; Boston MA; a training by the Women's
Theological Center in spiritual leadership; learn and experience
a model of leadership that draws on each person's unique gifts,
builds community across differences, relies on spirit to create
transformation, practices reflection as well as action, &
connects individuals with collective/systemic transformation;
WTC, 140 Clarendon St, Boston MA 02116; 617/585-5655; Full Spectrum Resistance: An International Space Organizing Conference, 4/29-30; New York, NY; keynote by Michio Kaku (CUNY); speakers, panels, workshops, presentation by Mayors for Peace; plus preparation for 5/1 international disarmament rally; Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, POB 652, Brunswick ME 04011; 207/729-0517; www.space4peace.org Massive March & Rally to Demand Nuclear Disarmament, 5/1; New York NY; the demonstration will precede a month-long meeting of world governments at the UN to discuss the fate of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; We'll be joined by Mayors for Peace, a delegation of town & city mayors from around the world, as they deliver the call for nuclear disarmament on behalf of millions of people to the United Nations; mayors will lead marches to the rally site on May 1 (join a mayor from your region in the march!); for more information & to join the planning efforts, sign up for the May Day 2005 listserve (send e-mail to MayDay2005-subscribe@yahoogroups.com) or visit www.abolitionnow.org
Radfest 2005 & Midwest Social Forum, 6/3-5; Williams Bay WI;
this annual gathering for progressives & activists is reorganizing
its conference format to strengthen its strategic work and connections
among community and other organizations; for more information
contact Havens Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 8221 Social
Science,
Summer Peacebuilding Institute, with several sessions in May & June; Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg VA; intensive courses with leadership and participation from all over the world; SPI, Eastern Mennonite Univ., Harrisonburg VA 22802-2462; 540/432-4490; www.emu.edu/spi Institute for Global Leadership Courses; 3/4-6, Cambridge MA, "The Practice of Reconciliation Leadership"; 3/11-13, Tiverton RI, "Work, Purpose, Place, & Peace"; 4/18-22, New York NY, "The UN & the Harmonization of nations: An Evolving Process Accelerated by the Tsunami Disaster?"; for more information call IGL at 503/753-4172 x3, or visit www.global-leader.org The Melman Fellowship Program, administered by the Institute for Policy Studies in memory of anti-war movement leader Seymour Melman, seeks to nurture a new generation of public scholars whose work contributes to the goals of opposing militarism & supporting workplace democracy; proposals welcome from graduate & undergraduate students, activists, researchers, & others; $5000 stipend; submit 2-3 page proposal outlining a project by 3/15; for more information contact Miriam Pemberton at IPS, 202/234-9382; miriam@ips-dc.org Annual Writers' Workshop of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War & Social Consequences, 6/20-7/1; UMass Boston; $400; 2 weeks of classes & individual consultations with distinguished writers from the US & around the world; the core faculty of Vietnam War & Peace Veterans, authors of now-classic works about war, are joined each year by others whose lives have been altered by that experience; applicants with diverse interests & backgrounds & at every level of writing experience welcome, working in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, & translation; send letter of interest, writing sample, & $25 non-refundable deposit payable to William Joiner Center; to apply or for further information, contact T. Michael Sullivan, William Joiner Center, UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston MA 02025-3393; 617/287-5850; www.joinercenter.umb.edu
Why Buy What You Don't Want? Pioneer Valley War Tax Resisters offers information & experience; brief talks to all-day sessions; POB 223, Greenfield MA 01302; 413/773-8655 Hear My Story: Know My Name, an hour-long program by performers who have experienced poverty homelessness, available to any group for $350 or more; sponsored by Maine Council of Churches, 207/772-1918 Is for Good Men to Do Nothing, Chris Verrill; $24.99 pb, $34.99 hb; 427 pp; chronicles the author's trek from the US to Afghanistan, through 5 continents & 29 countries, to learn why the September 11 attacks occurred & what the world thinks of US foreign policy since, & to try & make a positive difference in the world at the same time; available at Amazon.com Men's Surveys: New Findings, vol 32, #2 of Population Reports; 24 pp; free; since 1990, 46 countries, most in sub-Saharan Africa, have taken surveys of men's family planning attitudes & behavior; INFO project, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 111 Market Pl #310, Baltimore MD 21202 
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